RetireJapan

If you are on a work visa you do not have to pay tax on overseas gifts or inheritances (you do if you are on a spouse visa or are a permanent resident). Don’t think this is correct. Lots of people confuse permanent residency for visa purposes with permanent residency for tax purposes when it’s poss...

I lived in Japan in the early 2000s and I never heard about Japan taxing foreign money/gains. If this is now the case, this is likely to affect my decision to return at some point. Please humor me with a hypothetical. I’m Canadian (or simply not Japanese) living in Japan on a work visa (non PR) and...

Your interpretation of the exit tax and PR is the same as mine, and the main reason it would be financial suicide for me to accept PR here. My whole strategy to avoid Japan taxing me on investments I’ve been building my whole life is to leave, take the capital gains while outside of Japan, fix every...

No guarantor needed for me either.

@retirejapan clean up needed in aisle 5

And something similar for us Brits who couldn't care less about all the US stuff...

The more concentrated and specialized a fund is, the more extreme the returns can be - in both directions. Most of us realize we can’t pick these funds reliably and hence settle for market average returns at a low cost rather than thinking we’re smarter than the collective wisdom of millions of mark...

I will still probabably include fixed income assets in my portfolio and JGBs will probably have a place there because of being able to not worry about the exchange rate fluctuations on that front… Do you genuinely believe lending money to one of the most indebted Governments on the planet for below...

And this opinion: Don't Panic About a Yen Free Fall Some pretty shoddy analysis in that, this typifies it “And yet the cheap yen did not bring Japan the export boom it had expected. On the contrary, it ran a trade deficit in ten of the last thirteen years. By contrast, Japan had run a trade surplus...

If your a "Investor" or "Speculator" it doesn't matter. The last 5-10 years the markets have shifted in the terms of inflation/volatility. Hyperinflation is not really on the table but for a long term Stagflation environment most likely. Maybe another market crash in USA will ha...